Boys with Newspaper

I'm making an extra post today because I just found this picture of some boys with a newspaper and someone once requested that I keep my eye out for "newspaper boys" or "newsies" so I thought I'd add this one to the blog.

These young men are from the year 1911. Love the cap on the one kid, and the long shorts and the jackets on all of them. I wonder if they are checking out the sports pages?

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Lively Lads

This is a fun illustration of four, cheerful boys from a vintage newspaper ad from 1912 advertising for the "nobbiest and newest offerings in Neckwear, Caps, Hats and other wearables" including shoes. They are rigged out in what are a few different examples of the fashion styles for boys of the 1910s era, including knee length pants and stockings and shoes with spats. Two of them are wearing nautical inspired suits and the others look like what I tend to think of as "newspaper boys" although I am sure it was typical schoolboy dress as well.

I've cleaned the image up, although there are a few flaws from the newspaper printing that someone may want to improve upon (it's easier to see it at full size).



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